Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
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| Nonprofit | |
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Headquarters | 1400 La Concha Lane, Houston, USA |
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Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas |
| Products | Whole blood and blood components |
| Website | www.giveblood.org |
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is an independent, nonprofit blood center that gathers blood through donations and provides blood, blood components and related services. The center meets the blood and blood component needs of patients being treated in more than 170 healthcare institutions in the 26-county Texas Gulf Coast, Brazos Valley and East Texas regions. The Blood Center began operations on Jan. 1, 1975 and is headquartered in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The Blood Center also has 17 Neighborhood Donor Centers located throughout the greater Houston area, College Station and East Texas.
To meet the needs of the area community, The Blood Center established a collection goal of 333,000 units in 2010, with more than 1,000 donations per day. In 2007, the center collected a total of 291,319 units of blood and blood components, exceeding 2006's record by more than 18,000 units. In 2009, The Blood Center collected 331,298 units, surpassing the 2009 goal by more than 11,290 units.
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and is accredited, licensed and inspected by AABB, the Food and Drug Administration as well as local and state authorities.
In 2003, The Blood Center launched Commit for Life, which is a partnership between the community and Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center that is focused on saving lives and permanently increasing the blood supply. The Commit for Life program works to achieve this goal by partnering with individual donors who are willing to: 1) Donate once per quarter; 2) allow The Blood Center to contact them; and 3) spread the word.
Commit for Life brought a new way of doing business to The Blood Center, focusing on the lives saved every day, rather than on the act of donating blood. The Blood Center partnered with Houston-based strategic marketing firm Next Level Thinking to develop and implement the Commit for Life brand. Since its inception in 2003, Commit for Life has been a very successful program; annual collections increased 50 percent from 2003 to 2009.
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